She paints a surreal world-sometimes full of terror and sometimes of beauty-in which "the Captain" rules her by the rod and the school's corridors are filled with wolves. Painful recollections of moments of humiliation inflicted by thoughtless medical professionals are juxtaposed with Lauveng's own understanding of how such patients are outwardly irrational and often violent. Lauveng illuminates her loss of identity, her sense of being controlled from the outside, and her relationship to the voices she heard and her sometimes terrifying hallucinations. A Road Back from Schizophrenia gives extraordinary insight into the logic (and life) of a schizophrenic. "It's an illness just like cancer or heart disease," Kaye stressed, adding that unfortunately there is no medical test that can immediately diagnose schizophrenia in its earliest stages.For ten years, Arnhild Lauveng suffered as a schizophrenic, going in and out of the hospital for months or even a year at a time. I also wanted to write something that ended hopefully once a diagnosis was made," she said. "I wanted to write a book from a mom's point of view. The book takes us through misdiagnoses, drug treatments that didn't work and then on to the challenges that came even after the correct diagnosis of schizophrenia - primarily the problems that emerge when patients go off their medications. Kaye was a single mother with another child - a younger daughter - juggling a career and family life when it became apparent that Ben was experiencing something more than adolescent rebellion. "Ben Behind His Voices" starts with Ben as a happy, well-adjusted, popular teen who slowly drifts into eccentric, difficult behavior and then into deeper anti-social episodes.īecause schizophrenia tends to emerge during teen years that are marked by a number of personal changes and challenges, parents often assume the symptoms associated with the illness are a "phase" or even a reflection of drug experimentation - just the standard difficult adolescence of so many teens. By the time I was done with the class, I had 10 chapters." When Kaye read that chapter and noticed some of her fellow students starting to tear up, she thought, "Maybe my story will touch other people.
I didn't really set out to write a book, but I thought, OK, maybe I can write one chapter," she recalled of her early work in a course at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury. "I left full-time radio and started to think about what I was going to do with the rest of my life," Kaye said of the period after she gave up the morning show on STAR 99.
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